The United States likes to advertise its health care system as the best in the world, with top of the line treatments and pioneering care, but the truth is more complex. Financial status can have a huge influence on the type and quality of care received, as can race, especially when the two are compounded. […]

Dallying on Zika funding left the United States poorly prepared for a large public health crisis, and highlighted the fact that Congressional Republicans are too self-interested to consider the welfare of the electorate.